THE BEER NUT: What's brewing for 2017?

The new year is less than a week old, but I've already discovered the beer world has a lot in store for 2017.

Several breweries have announced major expansion plans, and they are scheduled to come to fruition this year.

Wormtown Brewery, in Worcester, in October announced plans to expand its brewing and packaging operations at its current location at 72 Shrewsbury St.

Currently, the brewery and taproom is housed in a 10,000-square-foot space. They have leased an additional 14,000 square feet, bringing the total to 24,000 square feet.

The first phase will be an 8,000-square-foot packaging hall, which will feature the bottling and keg line, as well as a canning line.They'll also add another 4,000 square feet for capacity and fermentation.

Brewmaster and co-founder Ben Roesch said, “This step will allow Wormtown to build out up to 50,000 brewer barrels (each barrel is 31 gallons) of capacity in the new space.” Currently, Wormtown brews 20,000 barrels of beer a year.

Also sometime this year, Tree House Brewing Company’s new Charlton brewery is expected to open. In March, the owners of the wildly popular Monson brewery announced they will open the new brewery on a 70-acre lot in Charlton.

The new brewery is expected to be 45,000 square feet and feature a 50-barrel brewhouse, a 4,000-square-foot retail area that will feature bottle and can sales, and a taproom offering full pours. The expansion will allow them to increase production to 30,000 to 50,000 barrels of beers.

The existing brewery in Monson will remain open, but that space will be used for barrel-aging beer and brewing side projects.

Just as exciting, just last week, Trillium Brewing Company announced it is expanding once again. Last year, they opened a second brewery in Canton to go along with their existing Fort Point brewery at 369 Congress St. in Boston.

Now, they plan to relocate to a new Fort Point location that will lead to bigger and better things,’ co-founder Esther Tetreault said last week.

“For now, let’s just say there will be more of everything: more beer, (way) more space, and more fun,” she wrote. Don’t expect better parking, though.

Also coming soon is Milford’s first brewery, CraftRoots Brewing, which is getting closer to opening its door.

The brewery, whose beers are already on shelves in several stores, is building its own brewery and taproom at 4 Industrial Road in Milford.

Last month the owners announced on the brewery's Facebook page that they have installed a 24-foot long bar and that the brewhouse was being put together. An opening date has not yet been announced, but they are already selling gear, including T-shirts, at the location.

So far, CraftRoots has brewed a blond ale, an IPA, a double IPA and a red IPA.

Norman Miller is a Daily News staff writer. Email him at nmiller@wickedlocal.com or call 508-626-3823. Check out the Beer Nut blog at blogs.wickedlocal.com/beernut. Follow him on Twitter @RealBeerNut and on Facebook at facebook.com/NormanMillerBeerNut.